I found a complaint address!!!!!

[derannimer]

Crookshanks wrote: 

>PoA is my favorite of the series and from all the reports I have 
>heard..It is slowly going to hell in a handbasket! No Fudge at the 
>Leaky Cauldron..no Wood now, which obviously means no quidditch, and 
>don't even get me started on Gary Oldman..shudder! 

::Derannimer tries to speak to Crookshanks, but her voice is drowned 
in the noise made by the herd of people stampeding towards the 
complaint address. Those poor folks at the WB.::

Look. People. There is *going* to be Quidditch. They are *not* gonna 
cut out all the Quidditch. They are cutting out *Wood.* They are not 
cutting out Quidditch. 

::Derannimer pauses.::

Probably. ; )

Secondly, if there is no Fudge at the Leaky Cauldron, then that's a 
Bad Thing--sound like _1066 And All That_, don't I?--but, as someone 
else pointed out here, they might well play that scene inside. Fudge 
knew that Harry was heading to the Leaky Cauldron, IIRC--there's no 
reason he can't have stepped inside for a pint while waiting. 

Third. All right now. What is *wrong* with Gary Oldman? From all I've 
heard, he's a fine actor and can carry it off.

::crickets chirping::

Oh. 

*Oh.* 

You don't think he's sexy enough.

Well, for pity's sake, the fact that you don't personally find the 
actor they cast *sexy* does *not* constitute an objective flaw on the 
part of the casting department! I mean, I don't find *Alan Rickman* 
sexy! And I'm a Bent Snapefan, so that *bums me out!* But I honestly 
can't think of anyone who could play a better Snape than Rickman 
does, and I have more faith in the casting department than I do in 
anything else going into the movies--their record to date has been 
*pretty decent*--and I've heard good things about Oldman, and I'm 
going to wait and see how he does with it. I bet he'll do well. 



Derannimer (who knows that some people have *other* objections to 
Oldman, but who has gotten the impression--ditto for Thewlis--that a 
lot of people are simply mad--in the sense of "irked"--about his 
appearance. And who thinks it's frankly silly.)